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Local Disk (E:) has appeared on my computer.

Anonymous
2018-05-27T07:59:39+00:00

Hello,

Earlier in the week I started getting warnings about low disk space (roughly once every 10 minutes).

Upon investigation I can see a second drive has appeared labelled 'Local Disk (E:)'. It has a capacity of 449MB of which 405MB has been used, I cannot view any of the files on this drive.

Both the properties for the 'C' drive and 'E' drive show the same device. It's almost as though a partition has been created but I do not understand how or why. I am the only user of the laptop.

My main drive (the c: drive) has 850+GB free space.

Using the device manager I have found 3 events in the event log for my Hard Drive to do with Kernel-PnP but it's all gibberish to me.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Regards,

Al

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Devices and drivers

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  1. DaveM121 868K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2018-05-27T08:36:57+00:00

    Hi gsmith1610, this is a known issue in the 1803 Update,

    It is the recovery drive, you are not meant to see it, it is not meant to have a drive letter, remove the drive letter and everything will return to normal:

    Click your Start Button, type cmd, then right click Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator'

    Run this command and hit Enter

    diskpart

    In the new Command Window, run this command and hit Enter

    select volume E

    Run this command and hit Enter

    remove letter=E

    Close Command Prompt and restart your PC

    That's It!

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  1. Vijay A. Verma 104.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-05-27T11:22:21+00:00

    It has been happening with new update that new drive is getting uncovered and you start getting low space notifications. You can do following to hide it and there will be no harm anywhere.

    Type diskpart in Windows Start Search box (Cortana) > Right click on Diskpart and Run as Administrator

    Give following command and Enter:

    select volume e

    Give following command and Enter:

    remove letter=e

    Source - https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-...

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